Flying elbow

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I picked up my pool cue again after many years and bought a table for practice. I am trying to improve my game and am succeeding but I have a long way to go.

I have a re-occuring problem that I can't seem to get rid of, and that I haven't seen discussed here. Maybe too elementary for you guys but I could use some pointers.

I catch myself ruining shots because my elbow doesnt stay in place for the stroke, causing me to hit the cue ball differently than I envision. The resulting side-to-side motion of the cue tip does absolutely nothing good for my shots.

Have any of you had and solved this problem, or still have it and have a plan for how to work on it?
 
You may want to re-post this in the "Ask an instructor" forums.

Start with short stoke practice 3-5 inch draw, STOP,count 1,2 then fire.
 
Back in the day, when I was working in the Circus, and giving the elephants their weekly enemas, I got to know a couple of trapeze artists who called themselves the Flying Elbow Brothers. They were from Schnecka..., Schnecki..., a city in New York.
While practicing their act one afternoon, and while I was giving the elephants their enemas, tragedy struck. One of the trapeze wires snapped and an Elbow (the oldest, I think) was sent hurtling towards one of the elephants waiting in line, hitting it broadside.
The elephant that was struck by the flying Elbow brother reared upon it's hind legs and screamed, spooking the others. The one I was giving the enema to, shit all over my arm and ran off.
The injured Elbow spent a couple of weeks in the hospital, but was never quite the same after that. Some say he and his younger brother became semi-professional pool players, but little is known of their whereabouts.
As for myself, I had to buy a new shirt. :smile:
 
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